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WATER PURI'FIER FOR BOILERS.

No. 328,254. Patented Oct. 13. 1885..

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. RICHARDS, OF MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOUIS W. MARBES, OF SAME PLACE.

WATER-PURIFIER FOR BOILERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 328,254, dated October 13,1885.

Application filed J one 11, 1885. Serial No. 168,323. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: may be blown off through pipe D at proper Be it known that 1, JOHN J. RICHARDS, of intervals.

Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and The head A of the shell may be removed in the State of Wisconsin, have invented cerwhen occasion requires, and the trays taken 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Waterout, as they rest loosely on supports a.

Purifiers for Boilers, 850.; and I do hereby I may use any number of trays, and may declare that the following is a full, clear, and vary my device in the details of its construcexact description thereof. tion without departing from the spirit of my My invention relates to purifiers for steaminvention.

10 boilers, and will be fully described herein Having thus described my invention, what after. I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters In the drawings, Figure 1 is the section Patent, isthrough the longitudinal center of my im- 1. In a feed-water purifier, the combinaproved purifier. Fig. 2 is the central transtion, with a shell having inlet and outlet [5 verse section on line to x of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is ports, of aseries of horizontal trays, each tray a plan View. having an overflow-pipe extending through A is the shell of my purifier. B is the tube its bottom some distance above and below the leading from the water-supply down through same, and the overflow-pipe in one tray bethe top of the shell, and C, O, and (J are ing at the opposite end to that in the tray 20 trays that are suspended in the shell, each of above or below it, and solid imperforate which is provided with partitions d, that expartitions extending alternately from one side tend from both sides of the tray for about toward the opposite side and breaking joints 7o two-thirds of its width and break-joints with with each other, substantially as set forth. each other, as shown in Fig. 3. Each tray is 2. In a feedwater purifier, the combina- 25 provided with a tube, d, that passes through tion, with a shell having inlet and outlet it and permits the outflow of the water. ports, of a series of horizontal trays, each tray D is a pipe, which extends through the bothaving an overflow outlet, that in one tray tom of the shell, for carrying the water to the being at the opposite end to the outlet in the boiler. tray above or below it, and partitions extend- 0 D is an exhaust-pipe, and D is a blow-oif ing alternately from one side toward the oppipe. posite side and breaking joints with each The operation of my device is as follows: other, substantially as set forth. The water is led into the shell through pipe 3. In a feed-water purifier, the combina- B, from which it falls onto one end of the up tion of the shell A. having inlet-tube B, out- 5 per tray, G, then circulates around the partilet-tube D, exhaust-pipe D, and b1ow-ofi pipe tions until it reaches the tube d at the other D, with the series of trays O G, &c., having end. Then it must rise to the top of that partitionsdd, breaking joints with each other, 8 tube, from which it will overflow into the and overflow-pipes d, extending through the next tray, 0, and from thence it will flow bottom of each tray some distance above and 40 through that tray to its tube d, and thence below the same, substantially as set forth.

into the next tray, O and thence to the bot- In testimony that I claim the foregoing I tom of the shell, from which it will overflow have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in into the pipe D. In this way the shale and the county of Milwaukee and State of Wis carbonates will be intercepted, so that when cousin, in the presence of two witnesses.

4 5 the water reaches the boiler it will be com JOHN J. RICHARDS.

paratively pure. Witnesses:

The mud and other precipitates which are S. S. STOUT, liable to accumulate in the bottom of the shell G. A. PLATZ. 

